Sweets on seats

While strolling the grounds this morning before the gates opened, I happened upon Esther Galloway and some of the fair maintenance crew cleaning all the chairs at the Family Fun Stage.

Because it is a family area, Galloway says that the chairs can get sticky from little kids and all their cotton candy and elephant ears.

Asked which is worse, Galloway, a student at Corbin College in Salem, said, "Elephant ears, because cotton candy breaks down with water."

Rest assured that when you sit at the fair, foreign substances of all solubilities have been removed for your comfort.